March 2010

Brad’s got a blog post up entitled, “Email Is Still The Best Login” — and after reading it, I wanted to add to the discussion (and, oddly enough, promote Gluecon — shocker, i know). I was simply trying to point…

If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you might’ve heard that Gluecon’s early bird pricing is expiring this Friday, April 2nd. 😉 Now, I know there are a lot of games that get played around conference registration prices. Event producers…

In case I haven’t mentioned it, Gluecon’s early bird pricing expires this Friday, April 2nd. As such, I thought I’d take a look at how Day 1 of Gluecon is shaping up from an agenda standpoint. In the midst of…

There’s been a lot of crowing as of late from folks that wish the whole NoSQL “movement” (where “NoSQL” means “not only SQL” – but gets misinterpreted a LOT) had been named something else. Since the whole movement is essentially…

I told we still had some tricks up our sleeve. 😉 I’m very very pleased to announce that Michael Stonebraker, creator of Ingres, Postgres and countless other relational database innovations, has signed on to deliver a keynote at Gluecon. I…

I’ve written about the value. I’ve pointed to the agenda. I’ve blogged about the keynotes we’re lining up. And now we’re coming up on early bird pricing expiring. Bottom line: The agenda is not complete yet. I’m still working on…

I’m a startup guy. I didn’t know that until I was already neck-deep in a startup, but it’s true. I often get asked why Glue’s sponsors are so dominated by startups. Partially that’s because guys like Techweb (producers of Cloud…

It’s no secret that tech conferences can be very expensive to attend — some much more so than others. There are events with similar dates to Glue (different topic area) that have early bird prices set at more than 2.5x…

I was just doing some work on the Gluecon agenda (the unpublished part), and noticed one “snapshot” (one afternoon track). Not to toot our own horn too much, but I was struck by the strength of the topics: The Apache…

I’ve been working on getting this to happen (and a BIG thanks to Justin Sheehy at Basho for his help) for a while now, so I’m overjoyed to be able to announce that Professor Eric Brewer will be delivering the…